What's up, everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to Founders Journal, my personal audio diary, where I give you the business builder,

the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building a business,

a team, or a new product. This week on Founders Journal, we're doing things a little differently.

We are dropping a mini-series about dealing with conflict. We're talking about everything from

respectfully disagreeing with your manager to mediating conflict and navigating competition.

This week's episodes can serve as a guide to handling uncomfortable situations in a corporate

setting and beyond. That means instead of just one episode, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,

this week we're giving you two. A new show that you won't want to miss plus a classic episode,

you maybe haven't heard before. If you haven't listened to today's classic episode,

go back and check it out. Now I am giving you a playbook to handle big disagreements at work.

Let's hop into it.

Disagreements happen at work all of the time, like literally every day,

from co-founder arguments about equity and strategy, to co-worker misalignment about ways of

doing things, disagreements are a daily occurrence in everyone's career. Yet most people hate

disagreements and they avoid them at all costs. People fear confrontation, they fear tension,

and they're afraid of hurting others' feelings. And for the longest time, I was one of those people.

But one thing that I've noticed about the most successful people that I know is that they have

built up the very necessary muscle of disagreeing often and disagreeing well.

Let me break down the two part playbook to embracing big disagreements. Part one,

know the ground rules for good disagreement. There are six steps or six ground rules and I'm

going to go through all six. But to give you the list, the first is expect disagreement to happen.

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